The combinatorial geometry of Q-Gorenstein quasi-homogeneous surface singularities

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: The main result of this paper is a construction of fundamental domains for certain group actions on Lorentz manifolds of constant curvature. We consider the simply connected Lie group G~, the universal cover of the group SU(1,1) of orientation-preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane. The Killing form on the Lie group G~ gives rise to a bi-invariant Lorentz metric of constant curvature. We consider a discrete subgroup Gamma_1 and a cyclic discrete subgroup Gamma_2 in G~ which satisfy certain conditions. We describe the Lorentz space form Gamma_1G~/Gamma_2 by constructing a fundamental domain for the action of the product of Gamma_1 and Gamma_2 on G~ by (g,h)*x=gxh^{-1}. This fundamental domain is a polyhedron in the Lorentz manifold G~ with totally geodesic faces. For a co-compact subgroup the corresponding fundamental domain is compact. The class of subgroups for which we construct fundamental domains corresponds to an interesting class of singularities. The bi-quotients of the form Gamma_1G~/Gamma_2 are diffeomorphic to the links of quasi-homogeneous Q-Gorenstein surface singularities.

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The paper deals with standard quotients of the anti-de Sitter Lorentz space. By the work of \textit{W. M. Goldman} [J. Differ. Geom. 21, 301--308 (1985; Zbl 0591.53051)] and \textit{E. Ghys} [Ann. Sci., Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 20, No.~2, 251--270 (1987; Zbl 0663.58025)] it is known that nonstandard compact quotients exist. The standard quotients were studied by \textit{R. S. Kulkarni} and \textit{F. Raymond} [J. Differ. Geom. 21, 231--268 (1985; Zbl 0563.57004)]. Here some standard quotients are studied for which the author shows that there exists a fundamental domain which is a polyhedron in the anti-de Sitter space.

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